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1 hour ago+3 3 0As The US Freaks Out About TikTok, It’s Revealed That The CIA Was Using Chinese Social Media To Try To Undermine The Gov’t There
You know that line, “every accusation is a confession?” For no reason at all, that’s coming to mind all of a sudden. No reason. If American freedom can’t resist an app of short videos, mostly used by kids, what kind of freedom is it really?
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2 days ago+14 14 0Plundered and corrupted for 200 years, Haiti was doomed to end in anarchy | Kenan Malik
Successive foreign governments plunged it into unpayable debt and left its citizens in penury
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5 days ago+18 18 0‘You don’t want to get better’: the outdated treatment of ME/CFS patients is a national scandal
The notion that this illness is psychosomatic is having devastating effects, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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5 days ago+33 33 0Number of data breaches falls globally, triples in the US
The Global data breach statistics report comes from Surfshark, which counts every leaked email address used to register for online services as a separate user account.
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5 days ago+21 21 0Most people with coeliac disease don't know they have it. Here are the signs to look out for
Coeliac disease can have significant long-term health impacts but most people living with the condition don't know they have it. There are some simple steps to take if you think you're one of them.
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7 days ago+29 29 0Micro- and nanoplastics in the body are passed on during cell division
Scientists investigated effects of tiny plastic particles on cancer cells in the human gastrointestinal tract, finding they are passed on to newly formed cells during cell division, and could promote the metastasis of tumours.
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3 weeks ago+40 40 010 Reasons You Should Switch From Chrome to Firefox
Firefox provides many advantages over Chrome, including being more efficient, so your laptop battery lasts longer. Firefox doesn't track your internet activity for advertising purposes. Firefox has better privacy controls, including contai ...
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3 weeks ago+36 36 0Elon Only Started Buying Up Twitter Shares After Twitter Refused To Ban Plane Tracking Account
Far from being the free-speech advocate he claims to be, Elon’s purchase of twitter suggests that from the very start a major motivation in the purchase, was to silence accounts he disliked.
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3 weeks ago+38 38 0Jessica Ashooh: The taming of Reddit and the National Security State Plant tabbed to do it
How and why did a hawkish young mandarin hothoused at elite universities and in the halls of state power end up an executive at an anarchic messageboard site with an anti-establishment reputation?
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3 weeks ago+26 26 0‘They lied’: plastics producers deceived public about recycling, report reveals
Companies knew for decades recycling was not viable but promoted it regardless, Center for Climate Integrity study finds
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1 month ago+24 24 0One Simple Change May Dramatically Boost The Effect of COVID-19 Vaccines
Sometimes it's the simplest solutions that get lost in the kerfuffle of scientific progress.
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1 month ago+13 13 0Commented in A Dramatic Upset Has Changed the Face of Britain’s Weirdest Sport
Britain's weirdest sport? I don't think so. What about cheese wheel chasing and bog swimming, just for starters.
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1 month ago+30 30 0Governments spend US$22 billion a year helping the fishing industry empty our oceans. This injustice must end
Governments all over the world are propping up overfishing. Now scientists have penned an open letter calling on trade ministers to implement stricter regulations against harmful fisheries subsidies.
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1 month ago+31 31 0“If there is a God, then anything is permitted”: On Dostoevsky, freedom, and religious violence
Most people today are spontaneously moral, and the idea of torturing or killing another human being is repulsive to them — in order to make them do it, some “sacred” Cause is needed which makes their concerns about violence seem trivial.
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1 month ago+25 25 0Turns Out There's One Animal Powerful Enough to Mess With Lions' Feeding Habits
In a stark example of how everything on our living planet is interconnected, one species of tiny, invasive insects has reduced lions' abilities to feast on zebras.
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1 month ago+26 26 0This salt alternative could help reduce blood pressure. So why are so few people using it?
Potassium-enriched salt tastes like regular salt and you don’t need to change how you cook or season your food. You just need to switch the type of salt you buy.
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1 month ago+21 21 0'Obelisks': Entirely New Class of Life Has Been Found in The Human Digestive System
Peering into the jungle of microbes that live within us, researchers have stumbled across what seem to be an entire new class of virus-like objects.
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1 month ago+30 30 0The nocebo effect? Six surprising things about placebos everyone should know
Even though placebos have been widely studied, there are still many things about them that will surprise you.
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1 month ago+38 38 0Humans Still Cheaper Than AI in Vast Majority of Jobs, MIT Finds
Artificial intelligence can’t replace the majority of jobs right now in cost-effective ways, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found in a study that sought to address fears about AI replacing humans in a swath of industries.
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1 month ago+31 31 0Copyright Remains A Complete Mess: A Tale In Two Stories
Here are two separate stories regarding the mess that is modern copyright law, that is now mostly “mediated” by companies that half-ass randomly deal with things and sometimes do not. While this is…